Are you looking for Twitter in Apple’s App Store, but can’t find it? You are not alone!
Just this week, X dropped the bizarre “Blaze your glory!” traps. slogan that appeared next to the app’s name in Apple’s App Store. The musk-made The phrase took up valuable real estate and was one of the first things App Store visitors would see about the X app, telling literally nothing about what the app is or does.
Here’s what the X app looks like now on the Apple App Store charts with the new tagline “Formerly Twitter.”
Credit: Mashable screenshot
Instead, Musk’s company has added something much simpler – and probably much better at attracting downloads. The tagline on the X app listing in the App Store now simply says “Formerly Twitter.”
Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, has been tanking in Apple’s App Store rankings since he dropped the Twitter branding during the summer. One researcher found that mobile downloads for From then on, the
This is what the X app previously looked like in the App Store with the text “Blaze your glory!” slogan.
Credit: Mashable screenshot
Musk was adamant about dropping all Twitter references – from the iconic blue bird logo to globally used terminology like “tweets” and “retweets” – as soon as he announced the name change. The switch has been made dirty, with more technical changes, such as swapping the Twitter domain name for X.com, which is still not active at the time of writing. However, Musk managed Twitter’s name change to X through Apple’s moderation process, which previously banned apps from using single-letter names.
But even though the iOS app is official became X on July 31a new poll issued found last week that a whopping 69 percent of users prefer the name “Twitter” to “X” and still refer to the platform as such. When users mention it on Twitter, they naturally search for it.
As mentioned, X ignores his “Blaze your glory!” tagline for “Formerly Twitter” seems like a good first step in addressing the sudden overzealous, sweeping changes that are clearly not resonating with users.